Chapter 18: Menstruation is coming
Early the next morning, Hua Qingxue opened her eyes.
She habitually propped up half of her body and looked at the other side of the kang.
Fu Tingye was really not there.
This man gets up very early every day, anyway, Hua Qingxue doesn't see him on the kang every time he wakes up.
Think about it, it's probably like this when you are a soldier, you get up early and practice in the morning or something......
Hua Qingxue tilted back again, closed her eyes again in a daze, and prepared to sleep for a while.
Falling asleep, I have a dull pain in my lower abdomen......
She curled up in the quilt and rolled over, arched her body, and rubbed her stomach in some discomfort.
The faint pain of the fall, intermittently, woke her up directly, and she couldn't sleep.
Hua Qingxue sighed lightly, put on her clothes and got up, wanting to pour a cup of hot tea to warm her stomach and lift the kettle, but found that the tea in it had already cooled down overnight.
I had no choice but to go to the kitchen to light a fire and boil water.
It's just that after such a toss, before she drank hot tea, she was already in a cold sweat! Below, there is even more sticky and wet stuff flowing out......
Hua Qingxue secretly said that it was not good, so she hurried back to the house to check, and sure enough, she had a period - she had a period!
It's a bad time to have a period in a place like this!
Hua Qingxue wailed in her heart!
Where is she going to get sanitary napkins?!
Judging from her memories and the information she has learned, there was almost no place to sell sanitary napkins in ancient times, because they were private items, and it was all up to women to make them themselves! - The most common way to do this is to make a long cloth bag filled with clean plant ash or charcoal ash.
Charcoal gray cloth bags, she made a lot of them before, all for the purpose of warming the quilt, pressing the hot carbon ash finely and sewing it into the quilt, but the quilt is still in the old house before.
And the needle and thread and some bits and pieces of cloth, all over there.
Hua Qingxue sighed unbearably and depressed.
Fortunately, the menstrual holiday has just arrived, and the amount is not much......
Hurry up and rush over and come back with your things, it should be in time.
I remembered that the house over there was still rented, so it was better to return the house today, and maybe I could get some rent back......
Hua Qingxue thought so, poured two or three cups of hot tea, and when her body was warm and her stomach didn't hurt so much, she went to the place where she lived with Li Jingnan earlier.
The weather was still very cold, and she was even more chilly after her period, so she bent her neck back to her residence, opened the door and went inβ
I haven't lived in it for a few days, and the yard looks depressed and dilapidated, and the ground is full of messes.
If the landlord sees this, he may complain......
Hua Qingxue sighed and shook her head, not caring about the mess for the time being, she went into the room to find the sewing kit, opened the quilt, and found the carbon ash bag inside, which made her feel a lot more relieved.
So many soot packets were enough for her to use for a while.
Next, clean the yard first, and then ask the landlord to return the house......
Just do it, Hua Qingxue walked to the yard, took a broom and started cleaning.
As a result, just a few sweeps, a man walked in outside the courtyard-
Hua Qingxue saw the person coming clearly, and her eyes widened in astonishment, why was it him again?!
It was about her eyes that could speak, and Qi Liancheng, who came in, immediately laughed when she saw her stunned appearance, "What?" Don't want to see me? It's a strange thing that someone wouldn't welcome silver. β
As he spoke, he took a piece of silver from his bosom, threw it into the air, and caught it again.
Hua Qingxue blinked and looked at him in a daze.
Qi Liancheng sighed, "Tsk, are you stupid?" After delivering the clothes yesterday, I left without getting paid, this is your payment, don't you want it? β
Of course, Hua Qingxue knew that what she gave last time was only a deposit, and she was paid another fee after washing her clothes, but Liao Bing has always been domineering, she didn't take it to heart, she just wanted not to offend them, but she didn't expect Qi Liancheng to remember to give her silver......
Speaking of which, although this man is evil, and he has repeatedly talked to her, he really hasn't done anything outrageous, and he is much stronger than the Liao soldiers on the street who are ready to fight and rob at every turn......
She held the broom, brushed back the loose hair on her temples, and took the silver from Qi Liancheng's hand a little uncomfortably, "...... Thank you, Senho-sama. β
"I've been here a few times, but you don't seem to be home all the time." Qi Liancheng inspected the surroundings of the courtyard and said unhurriedly, "I thought that if I couldn't meet you again, the silver would belong to me." β
Hua Qingxue lowered her head and replied, "Lord Qianhu came over in person, ...... I went out to look for my sister, so I wasn't at home. β
"Did you find it?" He had the usual ruffian expression, a kind of nonchalant ...... But with a bit of schadenfreude.
Hua Qingxue pursed her lips and shook her head.
"I don't think you can find it, or don't look for it, save your efforts in vain." He spoke coldly, turned around and walked to the door, picked up a large cloth bag from outside the door, and easily threw it into the courtyard.
Hua Qingxue looked surprised, and without waiting for her to ask, Qi Liancheng had already said: "Your clothes are well washed, and you are very satisfied, this is a batch of official clothes, wash them well, they must be washed!" Here are not thousands of households, but the commanders, commanders, and generals' clothes, and you are indispensable for washing and paying. β
Washing these people's clothes, the silver is naturally earned quickly, but it is as dangerous as walking a tightrope on a cliff, and Liao Bing is unhappy, and she may cut off her head at any time, let alone give silver......
Hua Qingxue was reluctant in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on her face, and said softly in fear: "I don't know what kind of stains they are?" Some...... If it's too long, I'll ...... I can't wash it clean......"
"Will it be clean?" Qi Liancheng frowned, showing impatience, "Then you open it yourself and see what you can't wash, tell me, and I'll go back and explain to the boss." β
Hua Qingxue lowered her head and opened the baggage, revealing the clothes inside.
She roughly inspected more than a dozen of them, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and then carefully checked what was unclean about these clothes.
Qi Liancheng was unexpectedly good-tempered, and he had been waiting patiently on the side.
Hua Qingxue checked it, turned out a few of them, and said to Qi Liancheng in a soft voice: "Here, and here...... There is no way to wash the stains in these places, but the color can be washed lighter, but it can't be completely removed......"
Qi Liancheng glanced at it indifferently, and said indifferently: "It's almost enough, it's not obvious anyway." β
Hua Qingxue was slightly embarrassed, who told her to wash it well just now, and she must wash it clean?
Hua Qingxue didn't want to say anything to him, so she took out another piece of clothing and said to him: "I have looked at this cotton clothes carefully, it is very clean, and there is no need to wash it." β
Qi Liancheng looked at her with a look like a fool, "Are you blind?" Can't tell if this padded coat is new and women's? β
Hua Qingxue was stunned and looked at the cotton clothes in her hand again......
Women's clothing indeed...... The color is very plain, and there are no patterns, so she didn't recognize it for a while just now.
I touched it with my hand, and it was thick, huh...... It seems to be the best new cotton.
But why put a women's cotton coat here?
Could it be the families of those officers?
Qi Liancheng probably didn't expect her stupid head to guess any decent answer, and said directly: "This is your clothes!" β
Hua Qingxue's eyes widened slightly, and she was extremely surprised!
What are you doing to suddenly send her cotton clothes to wear?!
"What's the use of just applying ointment to your hands? Even if you are cured, you will relapse when you get cold! Clothes for you to wear, warm up and save you from wasting my ointment. Qi Liancheng said in a vicious voice, glanced at her with a very disgusted gaze, and said, "Every time I see you, you are such a dusty and rotten dress, and you are also a woman, don't you usually change your clothes?" Luckily, it's winter, and if it's summer, I'm afraid you'll already have lice on you! β
Hua Qingxue's cheeks turned red when he said it!
Actually said that she didn't change her clothes? β¦β¦ And said that she would have lice on her? β¦β¦
Come on! She changes every other day, okay?! It's just a change of clothes that are close to the inside of the body, as for the outside of the ......
Well, it did rot, but she did it on purpose! It's so chaotic in the city now, does she dare to dress well? Don't you want to make yourself cold so as not to be targeted by those Liao soldiers?!
But she couldn't say these words, so she could only bite her lip and suffer silently......
"I'll get my clothes washed as soon as I can." Hua Qingxue said.
"I don't need to send it after it's washed, I'll send someone to pick up the clothes in two days." Qi Liancheng grabbed the big cloth burden on the ground and strode towards the house, "I'll take you to the house, look at your grinding ......."
Hua Qingxue was shocked and hurriedly ran to the front to stop him!
If Qi Liancheng was allowed to enter the house, he would definitely be able to see that there had been no one living in this house for a few days!
"No need, I-I'll come!" Hua Qingxue snatched the burden from his hand in a panic, and saw a few large blood blisters on Qi Liancheng's hands with black green, and was stunned, "Why are your hands ......?"
Qi Liancheng withdrew his hand and said lazily disappreciatively: "Oh, it's just a group of wastes who are jealous of me rising too fast and secretly stumbling on me, but I hid quickly, and they didn't succeed." β
Hua Qingxue found that not only was there a blood blister on the back of his hand, but also a serious injury on the palm of his hand, probably because he usually needed to grasp the weapon, and the blood blister on the palm of his hand had already burst, forming a rough blood scab, oozing blood and pus.
After she saw it clearly, she couldn't help but feel that her hands were starting to hurt too......
"You have to go to the doctor, what if it doesn't get inflamed?" Hua Qingxue couldn't bear to look at it directly.
"Inflammation?" Qi Liancheng raised his eyebrows, he didn't understand what the word meant, so he just said disdainfully, "If you have a big fart, you have to go to the doctor?" It's too shameless! Wouldn't it make people laugh to death if it spreads! β
Yo, this guy is pretty good-looking......
Hua Qingxue complained in her heart, but seeing that Qi Liancheng had helped her several times, she also had some heart to repay her, and said: "Your wound has suppurated, you can't ignore it, or it will get more and more serious in the future, after you go back, mix it with egg white and sesame oil, and then apply it to the wound, remember that the blood blister should be picked up, it can reduce inflammation and relieve pain, if you don't have sesame oil, you can use cooked honey to ......"
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted impatiently by Qi Liancheng, "You Rory has a lot of ramblings, who remembers to please?!" It's troublesome, why don't you go back with me! β